This past week I have found it hard to get anything done. my P.O.S. laptop has been powering off every 10-30 Minutes. I opened it up to see what the problem was and it seems a few thing have gone to the laptop heavens. I don’t know how the Power Button cable got into the CPU fan ( but I can guess ).
So I decided to buy my self a new laptop, I was gonna get a desktop but since I have a few engagements in the following months I will need something portable to work on.
I searched around for good Linux friendly laptops that *hopefully* wouldn’t need special drivers ( damn EEEPC :P ) I found a good one at Dell’s site and bought my self a custom XPS laptop.
XPS M1330, Intel Core 2 Duo T5850 (2.16GHz, 667Mhz, 2M L2 Cache)
4 GB RAM
All INTEL
*Drool* :-E
So good bye P.O.S. Compaq.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I’ve got one of those, but with 2GB and a 1.6 GHz processor (T5450 I think). I also highly recommend the 9-cell battery: it gives me upwards of 5 hours of work disconnected.
I’m very happy with the XPS. Talking to Zack at Akademy, he’s also very happy with his. He’s got an all-Intel like yours (mine has an NVidia card).
August 24th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
That’s great to hear, I can’t wait to get it. My current laptop has an NVidia card but it keeps giving me trouble with suspend and switching in and out of tty consoles.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:30 am
I also consider to by a Dell XPS. Is this machine quite or does the fan start frequently? It seems that the XPS get air from the bottom, right? What is your impression about the general stability of the machine? And what about the display? Is this machine good for graphic applications? Did you buy it with a Windows copy?
August 25th, 2008 at 12:39 am
So beatiful dell xps m1330, i have one, all is good, all intel too, i don’t have.. much money for buy my nvidia, but intell is cool, im so happy with my dell, congratz
August 25th, 2008 at 12:50 am
I’ve got one also, you can even get 4 Gb of RAM with the beast. You can also get it with Ubuntu installed if you find the right option on their website.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:28 am
I could fix that for you, but I’m in the USA… Shipping would cost as much as having it repaired professionally. MORE maybe. -_-
August 25th, 2008 at 5:56 am
@TheGzeus, I tried fixing it but sadly everything overheated and half melted lol. Even the speaker cable got melted into the mobo.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:57 am
@Bluebird, Yep got it with Ubuntu ( will replace with Gentoo ) and 4 GB of ram :-D
August 27th, 2008 at 4:35 am
in 3 months will be out the new dells: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=291340 ;)